Originally Posted by cheltzel

PTtravel ... Once I ran into a particularly virulent piece of malware. I believe it was in the Virtumonde family of trojan/virus.

It actually snuck a stub of itself in the boot area of the hard drive. And it reappeared after doing a wipe/reload!!!

I ended up having to do a low level format of the laptop hard drive to get rid of it.

So, I feel your pain and wish you luck in resolving this.